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The Truth Won’t Set You Free

The Truth Won’t Set You Free

Steve Kwan

University is such a social establishment. You are judged by a myriad of irrational criteria including how successfully you interact with your peers. You’re then stacked into a social hierarchy and subsets sharing similar interests.
Lying (or white lies), are a social lubricant, and in my experience, a social norm. But what if you’re not neuro-typical? What if you always tell the truth? What if you react purely on a rational level without emotion? What if you only can process rational empirical information? What would be your university experience?
The words wonderful, terrifying, enlightening, exhausting, enthusiastic, isolating, rewarding and soul destroying all apply. This contrasting range of adjectives, some of which appear to be antonyms, best describe my experience at tertiary studies.
I understand the discombobulation you are experiencing. Maybe the best way of explaining it is to briefly look through my eyes and witness a typical day on campus. See what drives me, what challenges me, and some of the implicit complications that most people take in their stride.
As a student part way through a Bachelor of Media with Screen Majors, I believed a short film was the practical choice for delivering some of my experience to you.